Erik Haapa
 

    • Project Researcher, 
    • Doctoral Researcher
    Mechanical Engineering (Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering)


erik.r.haapa@utu.fi

Additive manufacturing; powder bed fusion; PBF-LB/M; discrete element modeling; DEM; powder bed simulation; particle behavior; powder characterization; computational fluid dynamics; CFD; Flow-3D

B.A.Sc in energy technology

M.Sc in materials engineering

Current role: project researcher; computed fluid dynamics and discrete element method simulation of powder particle behavior and laser-material interaction in PBF-LB/M. Education in metal additive manufacturing. Current project: TICAM, Turku innovagtion center for additive manufacturing.




Researching simulation of PBF-LB/M; from powder particle behavior and the powder bed layering to the laser-material interaction. The work includes development of validation methods, powder particle characterization for parametrization, and development of discrete element simulation models, FEM, and CFD simulation models of the laser powder bed fusion process.



Lecturing/lab supervision in courses "3D printing and additive manufacturing" and "Advanced additive manufacturing", "Teolliset valmistusmenetelmät".




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